101. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #136213 by jayalenik on February 29, 2008 at 2:23 pm

"If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns".

At least then we can tell who the outlaws are

102. Atheists to celebrate at Darwin Day in Coconut Creek

Comment #123223 by jayalenik on February 6, 2008 at 4:28 pm

al-rawandi,
California what are you a retarded hippie tree hugger
SOFL is where its at

who are we kidding amsterdam is really where its at
celebrate 420
and thanks for calling me friend sincere or not

103. Atheists to celebrate at Darwin Day in Coconut Creek

Comment #123029 by jayalenik on February 6, 2008 at 11:30 am

Steve : Evolution does imply atheism at least the no god part

Happy atheist 123 : You should go and have a good time These hacks are just jealous they dont live here in south florida

Glacian : Thank you for being and doing what you can for local atheists and darwin admirers

104. Apologetic billboard replaces atheistic sign

Comment #123022 by jayalenik on February 6, 2008 at 11:21 am

I am offended by the new sign "Off with their heads"

105. Christopher Hitchens Debates Timothy Jackson

Comment #123008 by jayalenik on February 6, 2008 at 10:56 am

Hey teratornis

I am sitting down to lunch any suggestions

106. Blasphemy

Comment #123003 by jayalenik on February 6, 2008 at 10:47 am

And I really should do something about those voices

107. Blasphemy

Comment #123000 by jayalenik on February 6, 2008 at 10:45 am

Hello all, I contend we wont all be free until the last mullah x___________ has been buried under the demolished bricks of the last mosque x________
Sorry to the original author and change the blanks to suit whichever cult names as you wish

Whenever I try , and try as I might, to think rationally about the muslim problem in the back of my mind I hear a voice that says "You know if we keep letting these people go on doing their horrible atrocities it wont be long before the barbarians are at the gate" I respect and read dennett but the time has come to pick a side It wont be long before some sheik with to much MONEY FAITH AND ZEAL decides to kill your sister because she faced slightly askew when praying. I think it is time to call a spade a spade and talk and react rationally when faced with a people who don't. In this case calling them fucking nut-jobs seems appropriate

108. 'Irrational Atheist' trounces God-deniers

Comment #119015 by jayalenik on January 31, 2008 at 9:10 am

re: post 730
Yes, well once you learn how to travel through time you will be able to do all of your preparatory work at any time of your choosing, including after the event.

Kinda like you doing your thinking after you post your coments

109. Changing my Mind

Comment #108777 by jayalenik on January 7, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Qster
I told you to bring some ammunition to this fight. You cant bring faith based anicdotal evidence to a site that is filled with people willing and able to sift though it. Homeopath is just not going to stand up to the scrutiny it will face here.


Did you hear about the homeopath who forgot to take his medicine and died of an overdose.

110. Changing my Mind

Comment #107153 by jayalenik on January 4, 2008 at 7:45 am

Qster

Boy did you walk into the wrong venue to defend homeopathic woo woo. Talk about bringing a butter knife to a gunfight.

111. Borders Tags Atheist Book with 'O Come All Ye Faithless' Cards

Comment #100250 by jayalenik on December 18, 2007 at 12:26 pm

17. Comment #100232 by Geoff on December 18, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Good one, Paula!

But "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition"...

Ok Geoff since no one else said it " nobody expects the spanish inquisition"

112. Richard Dawkins at AAI 07

Comment #85896 by jayalenik on November 7, 2007 at 12:41 pm

Comment #85882 by ADH on November 7, 2007 at 11:54
""On the issue of eternal separation from God, well it is actually what atheists want, is it not? It would hardly be an act of mercy on God's part to admit into his presence people who would rather spend eternity in hell than be there. As CS Lewis said: "there are only two kinds of people - those who say to God 'Your will be done', and those to whom God will have no choice but to say 'Your will be done'."

I for one need separation from god as much as I need separation from santa
For me the definition of deluded is not just believing in gods, but citing them like you just had a couple of beers together.

113. Richard Dawkins at AAI 07

Comment #85857 by jayalenik on November 7, 2007 at 10:41 am

ADH said
"Anyway, that's all for the time being"

And thats all you are going to get, after two pages of questions and no answers I say troll

114. Sam Harris at AAI 07

Comment #82487 by jayalenik on October 26, 2007 at 12:43 pm

As of late, when asked, I say I am a non believer. That way we can get past the "hating god thing" that theists seem to think about all atheists. Plus, atheist doesn't adequately describe all the things I dont believe in.

115. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath

Comment #79263 by jayalenik on October 16, 2007 at 3:51 pm

Thanks johnny o Knowing hitch i should have guessed

116. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath

Comment #79218 by jayalenik on October 16, 2007 at 1:31 pm

Whats a miniature?

117. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath

Comment #79206 by jayalenik on October 16, 2007 at 12:55 pm

used to be an atheist "used to be a scientist", "used to be a Marxist", and "used to be a historian"

It sees no one will have him

118. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath

Comment #79205 by jayalenik on October 16, 2007 at 12:52 pm

I guess I paint with a broader brush than TJ
To me like a painter whose work I judge on merit of subject technique medium etc. I look at a speech in the same way. Jay

119. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath

Comment #79198 by jayalenik on October 16, 2007 at 12:33 pm

RE:
27. Comment #79187 by steve99 on October 16, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I don't want to encourage people to be good :) I am only after effective techniques for attacking religion and irrationality.

T Jefferson has an effective technique.....

"Ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them" T Jefferson

120. Debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox

Comment #76434 by jayalenik on October 5, 2007 at 9:01 pm

90. Comment #76375 by Styrer- on October 5, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I am on edge of becoming a followower of Allah, I wonder why I should not say I want to kill you all?

All I read here is angry opinion, and I have my own angrey ideas. Why should you all be allowed to live when my new God says you are put to death? Will you answer my questions? Why should I not put you all to death?

You say you do not know the start of the world, the universe. Therefore you are stupid, no? The start needs Allah, needs a cause, are you not stupid? What is cause if not Allah?

I want your answer and you are pathetic dogs.


Why do we have to suffer assholes like this?
You ,like your shit eating god deserve nothing but scorn, so come and get me

Sorry guys but every now and then I cant help it

121. New Rules: A Religious Test

Comment #74368 by jayalenik on September 28, 2007 at 9:28 am

Re: Walk
pretty lame of you to change your tune just because summer seale says hes a woman you think thats going to get you a date

"Besides, I like a girl who gets her hair and nails mussed up once in a while, while strongly stating her position!"

Kiss ass

122. Larry King Interviews Kathy Griffin

Comment #72089 by jayalenik on September 20, 2007 at 10:03 am

4. Comment #71596 by Fanusi Khiyal

"Explaining the obvious to fools is my job."


explaining foolishness to the oblivious is my job

It was a joke i.e. satire look it up
and it would seem most here have no problem making jokes about all gods regardless of how inane they are

123. Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?

Comment #71141 by jayalenik on September 17, 2007 at 10:35 pm

revcort said "#1 The law of identity applies infinitely within our system. God is not within our system. He is a paradox in our system. He is not a paradox in His system. He is perfect existence."

I dont think calling god a pair of sox is going to get us anywhere !!!

Jay

124. The Sacrifice of Reason

Comment #66830 by jayalenik on August 31, 2007 at 5:27 pm

DICK said
"Let's get back to something interesting, now that we know what "rational thought" is all about."

Well we are waiting!!

125. The Sacrifice of Reason

Comment #66715 by jayalenik on August 31, 2007 at 5:18 am

39. Comment #66440 by Richard Morgan on August 30, 2007 at 2:19 am
stag :
For my money, Harris' arguments have this unsettling tendency to segue into hyperbole. Religion is a shit, we get the picture Sam!

Hahahahahaha! Thank you, stag. There is hope for this board after all!!

Heres another one for you Dick
If you could get your gooey eyed nose out of Stags ass long enough you would see the board is so relived you approve of us we are as happy as litte girls jay

126. Eight-million-year-old bug is alive and growing

Comment #62182 by jayalenik on August 8, 2007 at 3:56 pm

J said So this is why eating snow makes you sick.



"Dont you go where the huskies go and dont you eat that yellow snow" Frank Zappa

127. Town Hall Seattle: God Is Not Great

Comment #57542 by jayalenik on July 19, 2007 at 5:44 pm

Comment #57218 by ecl6nb on July 18, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I enjoyed reading God Is Not Great for the first 4/5 of the book. As a fellow anti-theist its great to hear someone articulate the arguments so clearly. Though I felt a slight unease that attacking Judeo-Christian tradition is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel and his style is sometimes unnecessarily abrasive I was quite willing to go along with it. Until, that is, he started 'having a go' at Buddhism - a 'religion' I admire.

Though it has undoubtedly acquired many supernatural elements in the past 2,500 years I think that unlike other religions it is not essential to believe in them in order to see the value of its core tenets. The central beliefs of Buddhism (Four Noble Truths, Three Signs of Being, etc) and subject to rational investigation. No Buddhist is required to believe them because the Buddha says they should but rather are invited to reflect on them and consider that they may be true. Buddhism is a rational, experiential belief system. CH's comments on Buddhism in his book reveal that he knows little about Buddhist philosophy. I realise that I may sound just like a Christian/Muslim/Jew complaining that he really doesn't understand 'my' religion but I think there is a difference. He spends considerable time de-constructing the big three religions and demonstrates that he does at least know what they teach even if he doesn't think its true. His dismissal of Buddhism however is cursory and badly researched. I would be interested in reading a serious well-researched critique of Buddhism from a humanist/rationalist perpective.

While there can be no doubt that individual Buddhists have and continue to do 'bad things' and sometimes in the name of their religion, it is a mistake to equate it with Christianity or Islam. The scale and frequency of such incidents is so comparatively small that they stand out precisely because they are the exception in the history of Buddhism.

In this talk he mentions as an aside the fact that the Burmese military junta is made up of Buddhists. So what? People can be hypocrites whether they are religious or not. These 'asides' don't consitute an argument but merely attempt to tarnish by association.

Okay sign me up
Where do I get one of those cool robes
And do I have to chant at the airport

Thank you Harry Rama

128. Sean Hannity with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #55173 by jayalenik on July 10, 2007 at 7:38 am

Comment #54844 by _J_ on July 9, 2007 at 5:56 am

That wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be! I reckon Hitchens came over rather well, there.

It's a lovely moment when Hannity loses the ability to string coherent sentences together and instead falls back on replacing every second word with 'energy'. I don't think this is actually deliberate use of the Chewbacca defence - the magic of 'energy' seems to be one of the most popular universal (non)explanations among people addicted to everything from homeopathy to Hindu.

As an entertaining diversion, play Energy Bingo: see if you can predict when someone is going to take a nosedive out of meaningful discourse and start making sweeping appeals to Energy. Fun for all the family!

Chewbacca defence lmao thanks J

129. Religion - our maelstrom of ignorance

Comment #49656 by jayalenik on June 12, 2007 at 7:25 pm

jshuey I agree

moderate christen/muslum/etc = poetic creationlsm
poetic even that rubs me wrong

130. Hamas Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Comment #48569 by jayalenik on June 8, 2007 at 12:08 pm

I think we need a rtambree's law
You always ruin a thread

131. Protesting the Creation Museum

Comment #48560 by jayalenik on June 8, 2007 at 11:47 am

Regarding the herb
I believe you are both misquoting
I have a certified copy from jc herself

"and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for smoke: and it was so stoned"

Thats why t-rez could hang with people

132. Religion and Child Abuse

Comment #48104 by jayalenik on June 6, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Biz

You Liar

I was looking forward to not seeing any thing from you for a couple of days and there you are

133. What I Think About Evolution

Comment #46770 by jayalenik on June 1, 2007 at 1:57 pm

divine causality WTF
There is no god Grow up
Sometimes I am ashamed to be human

They all wanted to raise their hands !!!

134. Some US Muslims say suicide attacks OK

Comment #44028 by jayalenik on May 23, 2007 at 7:42 am

Re look to windward

Im a little confused too You think suicide bombing is okay if the target is justified.

Since we only get one go around, I prefer to fight the good fight here on earth

135. Liberty U student plotted to set off explosives, police say

Comment #44018 by jayalenik on May 23, 2007 at 7:29 am

Hey Bremas
just to be fair
maybe only a few people would have been burned

136. Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade

Comment #42407 by jayalenik on May 18, 2007 at 7:02 am

Bizarro writes

Suppose you came across a dead body that was shot 10 times in the head. Can a person shoot him or herself in the head 10 times without assistance? Obviously not. So it's only logical to deduce that someone else shot that person. You might not have seen the person, and there may be no witnesses, but it is apparent that the dead person could not have been killed without the assistance of someone else.

I THINK GOD KILLED HIM

137. The stone is cast

Comment #41820 by jayalenik on May 17, 2007 at 6:21 am

Yorker
LOOK UP ......... that comment went right over your head

I still say falwell was a hateful prick who deserves all the venom we can spit

And it made me feel good to share it

138. The stone is cast

Comment #41645 by jayalenik on May 16, 2007 at 1:23 pm

Please someone explain to me why here at the RD site calling god and all of his buddies names with just as much negitivity as some have used for falwell is just fine. I have never seen anyone taken to task for calling god a baby killer. Why is it a character as vile as falwell should have our contempt spared in death or life for that matter. I think that if this was a thread from a week ago about falwell, with him still alive we would hear much worse.

Trying to get back on track, yorker

139. The stone is cast

Comment #41642 by jayalenik on May 16, 2007 at 12:54 pm

Yorker

Let me be the first to apologize, and I am sure I speak for many others. I am sorry that the site has failed to live up to your standards, and heres hoping, with the proper guidance from you, that we can live up to your expectations

So sorry Jay

140. The stone is cast

Comment #41563 by jayalenik on May 16, 2007 at 9:57 am

Carter stop being so tough on the telletubbies
I hear flynt met them and now they are best of friends

141. The stone is cast

Comment #41560 by jayalenik on May 16, 2007 at 9:54 am

just from reading this thread i would have to say
very few of the posters here would like falwell if they met him, or flynt for that matter

142. The stone is cast

Comment #41525 by jayalenik on May 16, 2007 at 8:31 am

baron ochs

falwell also expected people to call him doctor
bullshit credentals from bullshit schools

143. The stone is cast

Comment #41474 by jayalenik on May 16, 2007 at 7:01 am

dower

everytime I look I see you putting down the people on these boards
I dont see how this is irrational
calling me insane is a personal attack

jonecc
We shouldn't be putting abusive, derogatory pieces about Falwell in these discussions, it gives the wrong impression about us.

I am not a we, and what makes you think the impression you and I want to give is the same.

My opinions are my own.

144. The stone is cast

Comment #41425 by jayalenik on May 16, 2007 at 5:34 am

dower

everytime I look I see you putting down the people on these boards

do you follow logicel around to kiss his ass

and falwell deserves what he gets

145. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41156 by jayalenik on May 15, 2007 at 2:58 pm

Hey Logicel
can I flag dower for lame sarcasim

146. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41127 by jayalenik on May 15, 2007 at 2:19 pm

Hey Eirik

Will you let me know when its ok for me to make
"any fucking comment I damm well want to make"
I'll be waiting Thanks

147. Hitchens vs. Hannity on Religion and God

Comment #41091 by jayalenik on May 15, 2007 at 1:33 pm

Hey pi guy I am still laughing from your comment
You are one funny dude

148. Hitchens vs. Hannity on Religion and God

Comment #41087 by jayalenik on May 15, 2007 at 1:30 pm

hey there goes a proto universe now
stick out your thumb

149. Hitchens vs. Hannity on Religion and God

Comment #41067 by jayalenik on May 15, 2007 at 12:57 pm

Thought: Hannity's position that a supernatural force with intelligence created the universe could be correct (technically)

Dawkins says that anything that created this universe had to evolve from a long process and be vastly more intelligent than the being it is creating. The Ultimate 747.

Lets say that there was/is an intelligence in a parallel or pocket universe that evolved some 16 Billion years ago and became smart enough to understand the workings of the universe. Say, twice as smart as us. And lets say the Multiverse theory is correct and they found a way of making universes in an attempt to create life. Even though they would never possibly be able to go there etc...

Then in fact, if this were true then we would have been created by an actual intelligent lifeform from a distant universe who new how to create paralle universes.

I think that there are some scientist right here on earth currently trying to create seperate universes as we speak. If they succeded and their new universe was dialed (anthropic principle) in correctly, and life formed, they would then be God like too...

Any thoughts?

Just one ....... pass the dube

150. Hitchens vs. Hannity on Religion and God

Comment #41064 by jayalenik on May 15, 2007 at 12:53 pm

I think the best Hitchen moment (Hitchenism ?) is at about 30 secs to go, hannity had just used the old standard attack of intellectual snobbery and after a moment to reflect Hitchens aggrees. Classic